Major Sullivan Ballou gained fame for the poignant letter he wrote to his wife before the First Battle of Bull Run. Not so well known is that after he was mortally wounded in that fight, Confederates dug up, decapitated and burned his...

Civil War Brigadier General John King's disciplined brigade of Union Regulars found itself tested as never before at Chickamauga. For two bloody days, the Regulars dashed from one endangered spot to another, seeking to save their army from...

Under the stern but sympathetic gaze of Lt. Col. Louis Wagner, some 11,000 African-American soldiers trained to fight for their freedom at Philadelphia's Camp William Penn. Three Medal of Honor recipients would pass through the camp's...

Dancing Along the Deadline: the Andersonville Memoir of a Prisoner of the Confederacy, by Ezra Hoyt Ripple,edited by Mark Snell, Presidio Press, Novato, Calif., 1996, $19.95. Anyone with more than a passing interest in the Civil War knows...

Medical Histories of Union Generals, by Jack D. Welsh, Kent State University Press, Kent, Ohio, $35. Aside from the unwieldy records gathered in The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion and a handful of classics like...

The Secret War for the Union, by Edwin C. Fishel, Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, $35. This book provides the serious reader of Civil War history with another overlay through which to study the events of the war. In this case, the...

DISASTER ON THE MISSISSIPPI: THE SULTANA EXPLOSION, APRIL 27, 1865 , by Gene Eric Salecker (Naval Institute Press, 346 pages, $32.95). Long interested in the explosion and fire aboard the steamer Sultana, which took the lives of hundreds...

A Southern Boy in Blue: The Memoir of Marcus Woodcock, 9th Kentucky Infantry (USA), edited by Kenneth W. Noe, University of Tennessee Press, Knoxville, Tenn., $32.95. Most students of the Civil War are familiar with certain men who chose...

THE IRISH VOLUNTEER: SONGS OF THE IRISH UNION SOLDIER 1861-1865, Rykodisc USA, $15.98. Musician David Kincaid recreates lively Civil War songs and hymns of the Irish Brigade in this audiotape. The brigade was comprised of the 63rd, 69th,...

The Irish Volunteer: Songs of the Irish Union Soldier, 1861-1865 performed by David Kincaid, Rykodisc, Salem, Massachusetts, (888) 232-7385, compact disc, $15.98. More than 160,000 Irish-born men fought for the Union during the Civil War....

Irene Sgambelluri was eleven years old, and living in Guam, when Japanese forces assaulted the area hours after bombing Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Sgambelluri spoke with HistoryNet about the attack and the aftermath. ...

Although an ordained clergyman of the Church of England, Lt. Col. Bernard William Vann is not counted among the VC chaplains. He earned his nation’s highest award for combat valor while serving as an infantry battalion commander...

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